Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: MODERN LATIN AMERICAN ART: MEXICO IN THE MODERN AGE

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines Latin American Art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the eras of independence and revolution. We will examine such topics as art and nationalist discourse; legitimation/appropriation of the past; gender; art, dictatorship and revolution; surrealism; indigenism and social realism; the politics of muralism; plus modernism and alternative modernisms. Taught in English Open to first year students only, any and all others will be removed. Cross-list: SPAN 156.